ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Members of the legal team that prosecuted Florida death row inmate Oba Chandler in 1994 say they'll attend the man's execution Tuesday at Florida State Prison.
Bruce Barlett told the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times he is ambivalent about witnessing the execution "But the circumstances were particularly egregious. This guy wiped out a whole family and left a grieving father to live with this for the rest of his life"
Bartlett, 57, is the chief assistant in the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office. He and a team of lawyers convinced a jury Chandler should get the death penalty for killing a 36-year-old woman and her two daughters while they were visiting from Willshire, Ohio.
The bodies of Joan "Jo" Rogers, 36, and daughters Michelle, 17, and Christe, 14, were found floating in Tampa Bay in 1989. Prosecutors said evidence suggested they were sexually assaulted.
"I don't take any pleasure in seeing someone take their last breath," Bartlett told the newspaper. "But this particular individual, I don't have any reservations about.
